littleaussie
I tell people my daughters are 75% American and 25
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Greetings and welcome! You are entering the very private mind of a fellow OCD Disney cruise mate. Unfortunately for you, it’s an interesting journey to say the least. This is my, er, my daughter's that is, school report on our trip through the Panama Canal - Westbound - departing May 10, 2008. So grab some popcorn, and stay a while. . . 
Let’s start with intros, shall we? Main menu – Jolene – 32 y.o. divorced mother of 2, recently returned stateside after 9 years overseas. I am unoficially a computer/support worker for a college. My official title, though, (which I don't get paid for) is Disney Commando Trip Planner. Our first cruise was a 4 night Wonder trip in January of 2006.
DD6 (I refer to her as
)and DD3 (She is 
) ***I just spent 10 minutes looking for a kitty icon, the Cheshire cat was the closest I could find!*** – transplanted Australian bush babies to the land of wind chills, snow and ice, you know. . . Northwest Minnesota. DD3 has an Australian accent, which I can’t figure out when technically, she has only lived from ages 0-6 months and 18 months-2yrs in Australia. The rest of her time has been spent in Minnesota learning “Yah, sure, by golly, you betcha, uffda”. DD6, her only trouble is learning to speak the words correctly, saying “Zee” instead of “Zed”, cookie instead of bikkie, breakfast instead of brekky, snack time instead of smoko 
.
X – is that how I refer to him as?, 36 y.o., Australian cattle rancher. Despite our differences, we still remain friends, even though we have split.
DM and DF – early 60s, my parents. The first cruise we took was with all 6 of us together.
After our very short 4 day cruise, we returned to a blizzard in Minnesota and swore on a snowman that if Disney every decided to go through the Panama canal again, we would be on that ship.
Fast forward to January of 2007: I was going through a rough time, with my decision to leave Australia and return to MN. I was a lurker on the Disboards after our first trip and to my surprise, in early January, I found the whisperings of a specialty cruise for summer of 2008. Due to the fantastic detective work of those disers, I learned that Disney was indeed, going through the canal again. This info gave me a place to retreat from the realities of moving. Bad news though Jolene, my final moving/return trip to the USA was on January 30th, 2007 – 1 day before the repo cruise goes on sale! No problem, I would be able to handle it right?
I decided this was much too important to leave in the hands of a travel agent. We arrived back in MN to -30 degree temps (leaving 110 degrees in Australia) at 9 p.m. The car ride to my parents’ house was 5 hours. Finally fell into bed at 4 a.m. on the 31st. Not to worry, I was sure I would be up in a few hours to get on the phone. I woke up at 11:30, yikes
!!!! Immediately I got on the phone to wait and also jumped online. Only waited on the phone about ½ hour for a quote but it was odd that I got a better deal online. Trip details: May 10, 2008 Westbound Repositioning Cruise, Gty category 6 for my parents and Gty category 11 for the rest of us.
Before I left, my ex had expressed an interest in going on the cruise with us. We both signed an agreement, written in red crayon on a coloring page, that we would behave as adults on the cruise and get along. At this point, I am not too worried, I mean I still have the document of proof in my safe.
Wanna see a pic of us??
I've updated each of my colored posts with pictures.
Let’s start with intros, shall we? Main menu – Jolene – 32 y.o. divorced mother of 2, recently returned stateside after 9 years overseas. I am unoficially a computer/support worker for a college. My official title, though, (which I don't get paid for) is Disney Commando Trip Planner. Our first cruise was a 4 night Wonder trip in January of 2006.
DD6 (I refer to her as
)and DD3 (She is ) ***I just spent 10 minutes looking for a kitty icon, the Cheshire cat was the closest I could find!*** – transplanted Australian bush babies to the land of wind chills, snow and ice, you know. . . Northwest Minnesota. DD3 has an Australian accent, which I can’t figure out when technically, she has only lived from ages 0-6 months and 18 months-2yrs in Australia. The rest of her time has been spent in Minnesota learning “Yah, sure, by golly, you betcha, uffda”. DD6, her only trouble is learning to speak the words correctly, saying “Zee” instead of “Zed”, cookie instead of bikkie, breakfast instead of brekky, snack time instead of smoko .X – is that how I refer to him as?, 36 y.o., Australian cattle rancher. Despite our differences, we still remain friends, even though we have split.
DM and DF – early 60s, my parents. The first cruise we took was with all 6 of us together.
After our very short 4 day cruise, we returned to a blizzard in Minnesota and swore on a snowman that if Disney every decided to go through the Panama canal again, we would be on that ship.
Fast forward to January of 2007: I was going through a rough time, with my decision to leave Australia and return to MN. I was a lurker on the Disboards after our first trip and to my surprise, in early January, I found the whisperings of a specialty cruise for summer of 2008. Due to the fantastic detective work of those disers, I learned that Disney was indeed, going through the canal again. This info gave me a place to retreat from the realities of moving. Bad news though Jolene, my final moving/return trip to the USA was on January 30th, 2007 – 1 day before the repo cruise goes on sale! No problem, I would be able to handle it right?
I decided this was much too important to leave in the hands of a travel agent. We arrived back in MN to -30 degree temps (leaving 110 degrees in Australia) at 9 p.m. The car ride to my parents’ house was 5 hours. Finally fell into bed at 4 a.m. on the 31st. Not to worry, I was sure I would be up in a few hours to get on the phone. I woke up at 11:30, yikes
!!!! Immediately I got on the phone to wait and also jumped online. Only waited on the phone about ½ hour for a quote but it was odd that I got a better deal online. Trip details: May 10, 2008 Westbound Repositioning Cruise, Gty category 6 for my parents and Gty category 11 for the rest of us.Before I left, my ex had expressed an interest in going on the cruise with us. We both signed an agreement, written in red crayon on a coloring page, that we would behave as adults on the cruise and get along. At this point, I am not too worried, I mean I still have the document of proof in my safe.
Wanna see a pic of us??
I've updated each of my colored posts with pictures.
Your a brave soul. But really if you both are still friends it shouldn't be too bad.
The girls will have a great time with the whole family being there. By they way they are really cute. So see you ex did something right.
Category 11 on deck 7. My parents had not been allocated a room yet but that was ok. I did find it odd that we were given a stateroom and everyone else wasnt assigned one until a few weeks ago.
